Word: baghdad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began when the coed, Siham Salih of Baghdad's Royal College of Pharmacy & Chemistry, refused to join fellow students in a walkout. She had a good reason: the dean of the pharmacy school, against whom they were striking, is her brother-in-law. When the strike was over, a few of Siham's classmates cornered her in a classroom and berated her. She fled in tears. Soon she had reinforcements. Gallant students from the law school, enlisting in Siham's cause, pummeled her tormentors. That sent the pharmacy students out on strike again...
Burning Oil. Next morning a sullen mob, recruited from Baghdad's slums and with scarcely a student in it, gathered at one end of squalid, narrow Rashid Street, in the heart of the city. Reds raced up & down like cheerleaders, whipping up the mob; one agitator showed the approved method of handling opposition by leaping at a parked bus and slashing its tires with a huge knife...
Last week, less than three days after the cocktails were downed in Grosvenor House, the streets of Baghdad were aflame with a new explosion of that resentment. Rioting Iraqi shouted "Down with Foreign Imperialism!" and "Down with Forged Elections!", stoned the windows of the British Embassy and swarmed into the offices of the U.S. Information Service, setting it afire. Some 60 civilians and policemen were wounded and eleven or more killed. Regent Abdul Illah hastily appointed his army chief of staff, General Nur El Din Mahmoud, as Premier. General Mahmoud declared martial law in Baghdad Province, and a measure...
...Jews were marched up the 13 steps of a public gallows in Baghdad one morning last week and hanged...
...Iraq, had been engaged in sabotage and espionage on behalf of Israel. Those convicted were found guilty of taking part in a series of bombings which killed several persons. Iraq said the underground group had cached large stocks of arms and explosives in Jewish homes and a synagogue in Baghdad...